Performance 60’
Galleria Macca, Cagliari

ph Ela Bialkowska, OKNOstudio

During his first performance in his homeland, Sardinia, Ruben presents himself to a female-only audience, as a gift to be gilded, a bride to be embellished, a place that will soon be familiar.

Love, family and intimacy, the other, common and uncommon, and less obvious clichés constantly developing: paradoxes, perhaps, found in the artist’s latest performative project, in which, by representing the iconic figure of the bride, his body becomes the social body where dreams, projects and hopes look for a fertile ground for new forms of life and interpretations.

Ruben Montini’s work, usually, is based on the re-appropriation of some clichés related to the idea of femininity and effeminacy, somehow breaking the idea of female restraints, included in a broader queer aesthetics which aims to create a more comprehensive society. Here, however, the artist becomes the absolute emblem, in an attempt – somehow wearing – to incarnate the traditional symbol of the bride, that encloses the idea of a Mother before than of a Woman.